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Fly fishing on the Roaring Fork River and mountain biking the Palisade Plunge, 32 miles of thrilling downhill singletrack, are easy day trips.
“Usually what happens when you have a palisade, it’s a defensive work, and inside, you would have had the buildings and the structure,” she said.
Grendel means, originally, no more than a bar or rod, or a palisade or lattice-work made of such bars or rods.
Many of these round houses were built close together, and then surrounded by a palisade made of tree trunks.
The next type is found in the monastery of St. Bride, which was simply a circular palisade encircling a sacred fire.
It seems that the citadel of Athens had been formerly surrounded by a wooden palisade.
But what she saw in the cheerful June sky beyond the palisade made her body go clammy-cold with horror.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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